[Healeys] Two questions

Richard Ewald richard.ewald at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 08:51:02 MST 2008


1. Not a BJ8 owner, but what you are describing is the classic symptoms of a
bad ground.  I know this sounds impossible, a British car with a bad ground,
but trust me on this.  Find where the tach grounds and fix the groundRick

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:42 AM, BJ8Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello, Healeyphiles -
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> I'm posing questions for two BJ8 owners who are not on the list.  I'm sure
> someone out there has the answers.
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> 1.  On a drive with ambient temperature about 40 F, tachometer was reading
> low.  Whenever the turn signal was turned on, the tach needle would drop to
> zero when the turn signal flashed, then bounce back up.  Same thing would
> happen when brakes were applied and released.   The problem seemed to
> disappear when the engine warmed up.  Since the turn signals, brake lights,
> and tachometer have a common power source at the green wire connections to
> the top fuse, I recommended that the owner look at these connections.
> Everything seemed to be O.K. there.   I suspect an internal tach problem,
> but wanted to get some input from the list in case there is something I'm
> missing or someone has seen this problem before.
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> 2.  Anyone know what the free distance is on the BJ8 rear leaf springs?
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> Thanks!
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> Steve Byers
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> HBJ8L/36666
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> BJ8 Registry
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> Havelock, NC  USA
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